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<blockquote data-quote="Darkness" data-source="post: 66643" data-attributes="member: 13">Your point being...?edit: The boards ate the first half of the post I quoted. Here is it, as well as my comment:Ok, now - these are examples that I can accept (and I agree about the &quot;hate&quot; part;&nbsp; oh am I ever glad that Mage: the Ascension 3e got rid of &quot;Magick&quot;). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(For readers' convenience, here's the original point for which these examples were given<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Heh. But it does - WotC are the authority on this. If you want to publish, say, a chemistry journal, you'd better use the definitions - as well as spellings - that the accepted authority uses. If you want to be compliant with the accepted standard, at least. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Now, D&amp;D being much less technical than chemistry (doing something not perfectly has less severe consequences, at least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), there's admittedly room for some flexibility. That is, if you publish your own world, you can rename things and also create new things with similar names as existing ones. Now, you still have to point this fact out, though. Take the Forgotten Realms, for example: Darkwood doesn't exist in the Realms - but there's a similar (and, in game terms, identical) material called Blackwood (amongst other things). This is pointed out in Magic of Faerun. Thus, if you want to use something called &quot;mithril&quot; rather than the DMG-compliant mithral but still use mithral's stats for some reason (e.g., convenience), you have to point this out to your readers. Otherwise, it is rightly viewed as an error and also is a possible reason for confusion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darkness, post: 66643, member: 13"] Your point being...? edit: The boards ate the first half of the post I quoted. Here is it, as well as my comment: Ok, now - these are examples that I can accept (and I agree about the "hate" part; oh am I ever glad that Mage: the Ascension 3e got rid of "Magick"). :) (For readers' convenience, here's the original point for which these examples were given:) Heh. But it does - WotC are the authority on this. If you want to publish, say, a chemistry journal, you'd better use the definitions - as well as spellings - that the accepted authority uses. If you want to be compliant with the accepted standard, at least. ;) Now, D&D being much less technical than chemistry (doing something not perfectly has less severe consequences, at least :D), there's admittedly room for some flexibility. That is, if you publish your own world, you [i]can[/i] rename things and also create new things with similar names as existing ones. Now, you still have to point this fact out, though. Take the Forgotten Realms, for example: Darkwood doesn't exist in the Realms - but there's a similar (and, in game terms, identical) material called Blackwood (amongst other things). This is pointed out in Magic of Faerun. Thus, if you want to use something called "mithril" rather than the DMG-compliant mithral but [i]still[/i] use mithral's [i]stats[/i] for some reason (e.g., convenience), you have to point this out to your readers. Otherwise, it is rightly viewed as an error and also is a possible reason for confusion. [/QUOTE]

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